This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YS.2ADI/2881.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't believe that Joseph Ward who married Matilda Wilcoxen was either an ancestor or descendant of James Ward who married Malinda Parish. According to the biography of John Bird Ward (http://www.rootsweb.com/~alhenry/Cem/abbe.htm), James Ward and Malinda Parish were his paternal grandparents; Joseph Ward and Matilda Wilcoxen were his maternal grandparents. I think that Joseph and Matilda were listed as Joseph and Martha Ward on the 1850 Henry County census: Ward, Joseph, 47 Martha, 48 John, 18 Christopher, 14 Matilda, 12 Daniel, 9 Matilda Ward is in the household of Christopher Ward in 1860: Ward, Christopher, 24 Nancy, 18 Matilda, 59 John, 28 Joseph, 18 Wiley, 14 If I am right about this, then Joseph Ward was born about 1803 and probably died before 1860; Matilda Wilcoxen was born about 1802. Bill Peebles